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	registered interest
	date	10/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to improve the transparency of public procurement rules for small and medium-sized enterprises.
	tabling member constituency	South East Cornwall
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sheryll Murray
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	904100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>This Government knows that small and medium sized businesses are the backbone of the British economy.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Procurement Bill we are introducing will bring four regimes into one and enable simpler, more flexible public procurement processes.</p><p> </p><p>The single central digital platform, with open contracting data standards and efficient ‘tell us once’ register of suppliers, will deliver a step-change in transparency, including for SMEs bidding for public contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 16/03/2023 17:42:45 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4100 label Biography information for Mrs Sheryll Murray

1464755

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Vocational Education: Qualifications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve the recognition of vocational qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	South East Cornwall
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sheryll Murray
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	900181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Vocational and technical qualifications (VTQs) provide an important and valued route for many young people and adults. We are streamlining and improving the quality of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below. Our reforms will put employers at the heart of the system, ensuring that all qualifications are fit for purpose, high quality and lead to good outcomes. We are creating clearly defined academic and technical routes at level 3, leading to future study and or skilled employment.</p><p>As set out in our level 3 consultation response published in July 2021, students will continue to be able to study qualifications similar to current Applied General qualifications where there is no overlap with T Levels. On 11 May we published a provisional list of 160 qualifications that overlap with the first two waves of T Levels. These qualifications will have funding approval withdrawn for anyone eligible to access the qualification through the 16-19 funding offer on 1 August 2024, unless awarding organisations successfully appeal their qualifications’ inclusion. The final list will be published in September 2022.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 24/05/2022 14:11:12 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4100 label Biography information for Mrs Sheryll Murray

1440297

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Vocational Education: Qualifications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help promote the value of technical qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	South East Cornwall
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sheryll Murray
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	906053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The department is strengthening routes for all students to progress through the system, by introducing high-quality technical qualifications that support young people’s progression and meet the needs of employers.</p><p>In January this year the department launched our ‘Get the Jump’ campaign, which helps 14-19 year olds explore all their education and training options. We recognise that technical education routes have lower levels of awareness, therefore this campaign spotlights T Levels, Apprenticeships, Traineeships and Higher Technical Qualifications in particular.</p><p>The department is also working closely with the Careers and Enterprise Company and Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge programme to ensure that teachers and careers leaders have the information and resources they need to communicate the benefits of T Levels to their students.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 14/03/2022 17:40:44 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4100 label Biography information for Mrs Sheryll Murray